From: Jon Ellis <jje@gentoo.org>
To: Troy Dack <tad@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Media-music category
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:58:10 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DCDBD8F4-94F9-11D7-A4C6-0003934489D0@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054557468.16242.5.camel@carbon.internal.lan>
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Troy Dack wrote:
>
> I'll throw my two bob in ...
>
> What about:
> media-players
> or
> sound-compose (sound creation apps)
> sound-players (players, duh)
> sound-libs (sound related bits 'n' bobs .. alsa?)
> sound-tools (mixers etc..)
>
> The only drawback with specific sound-* categories is that a good
> portion of players (in particular) play more than just sound (ie: video
> as well).
Right, this is where we end up, with a bunch of categories that still
aren't quite perfect. Oddly enough(!), we went through this process,
trying to come up with a bunch of sound-* or audio-* categories. The
end result was never quite as clean as grouping things together in
something like media-music.
In my mind, the good thing about the media-music approach is that it
doesn't have to be the end of the process. If more sub-division is
needed of media-sound (or media-music) it can be done.
Perhaps some of the things in our list (for instance, JACK) don't
belong in media-music and we'll end up making new categories for them
in the future (media-routing?) However, right now media-sound is all
over the place, the trees hide the forest, etc.
Someone coming to gentoo to do music is going to notice media-music, as
easily as they will find media-sound, but, they are much more likely to
find what they are looking for in category containing 50 ebuilds than
150!
j.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-02 10:19 [gentoo-dev] Media-music category Jon Ellis
2003-06-02 10:58 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 12:28 ` rob holland
2003-06-02 11:46 ` Ian Phillips
2003-06-02 12:55 ` rob holland
2003-06-02 12:17 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 12:37 ` Troy Dack
2003-06-02 12:58 ` Jon Ellis [this message]
2003-06-02 13:24 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 15:11 ` rob holland
2003-06-02 15:36 ` Todd Berman
2003-06-02 16:28 ` rob holland
2003-06-02 15:43 ` Todd Berman
2003-06-02 16:01 ` [gentoo-dev] namespace and categories ( was: Media-music category) Rolf Veen
2003-06-02 16:05 ` Todd Berman
2003-06-02 16:27 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-06-02 16:46 ` Rolf Veen
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